The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature

ISBN-13: 9781107533851 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 281 str.

Beatrice Groves

Opis

This book argues that the destruction of Jerusalem is a key explanatory trope for early modern texts.

Recenzje

'This is an important book … Groves demonstrates how political and theological discourses in late medieval and Renaissance England used and elaborated what James Shapiro has called 'Jewish questions' (the past) in order to 'answer English ones' (the present). … This work is not only a major contribution to the understanding of early modern English Protestant elaborations on the destruction of Jerusalem, and of the use of historical narratives in the fashioning and understanding of the present: her work rereads early modern English literature to enhance the dialogue between the two sides of an (apparently) irreconcilable dichotomy.' Yaakov Mascetti, Renaissance Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern Literary Culture: 1. From Roman to Jew: Josephus, the Josippon and the destruction of Jerusalem in early modern culture; 2. Continuity and change: staging Jerusalem and staging 'the Jew'; 3. Preachers and players: the sack of Jerusalem from pulpit and stage; Part II. The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern Texts: 4. Marlowe's Jew of Malta and the destruction of Jerusalem; 5. The siege of Jerusalem and subversive rhetoric in Shakespeare's King John; 6. The fall of Jerusalem and the rise of a metropolis: Nashe's Christ's tears over Jerusalem, Dekker's plague pamphlets and maternal cannibalism in early modern London; 7. The New Jerusalem: Josephan portents and Milton's Paradise Lost; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.